Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Intense, cosmic thinking — probing the underlying structures. What is happening at the core level? The probing mind needs to be guided by intuition, and we should also keep in mind what J.B.S. Haldane pointed out (paraphrased): “Reality is not only stranger than you think, it is stranger than you can think.” Some people glorify…

“Man must make peace with his seasons or the gods will laugh at him.” — Mary Renault The adolescent social matrix is an inevitable phase of development that has its place. If it continues to dominate your life long past adolescence that may be a problem. As much as we might work on ourselves, the…

As much as we might work on ourselves, the phantoms of childhood and adolescence are always able to reappear. Feelings of abandonment, rejection, deprivation, and of not being seen, understood, appreciated,or desired may reemerge. We may feel those old pangs of jealousy, rage at others who are pursuing their own agendas when we want them…

This card may apply to a self-obliteration urge in you and/or people you are close to. The urge toward self-obliteration is often quite mysterious. We can attribute it to particular causes, but that sort of view always seems superficial to me, and not the core of what’s happening. Some people seem to have a primal…

This is called casting light on obsessions, not eradicating obsessions, because some obsessions can lead to creative breakthroughs. An obsession is like wrestling with an angel. The average person gets pinned to the mat because he doesn’t have his obsession, his obsession has him. However, a mutant with a sufficiently strong commitment to consciousness and…

We live in a money matrix where so much of life is affected by buying and selling and the ebbing and flowing of money. Most people on the planet wish to have more money and less money stress. Don’t let money stress define your existence. There are ways to use money without money dominating your…

The Babylon Matrix suppresses your empowered awakening by convincing you that you are nothing but a particular identity, at a particular age, with such and such amount in your checking account, and the laundry list of worries and so forth. Actually, your real identity is that you are an interdimensional traveler who has arrived from…

The matrix would like you to be so immersed in the mundane and busy work that you will come to see junk food and channel surfing as rewards. You did not incarnate to be a worker drone willing to settle for inferior nourishment. A couple of summers ago I saw a billboard ad for Starbucks…

Grounding yourself by finding your center. According to the I Ching, you have only one obligation in life — to get your relationship to yourself right. Do that and your relations to sex, time, money, power, food, body, career, society, the cosmos, etc. will all be as good as outer conditions allow. Omit, distort or…